Contents

In an interview with New Indian Express, the director Sunil Kumar Desai said that the film revolves around the "'ifs' of our lives".[5] Lead actor of the film Ramesh Aravind described the film as "an out of the box love story, which has deep meaning with weird characterisations".[1] Anant Nag also felt that the movie had "serious messages" about Indian cultural heritage and Adi Shankara's Advaita philosophy.[4] It has been touted as the comeback film of legends of Kannada cinema such as—director Sunil Kumar Desai, music director Hamsalekha and senior artists Loknath and Shivram.[6] In an interview with the Times of India, Ramesh Aravind said that "Re" may seem like a film from the 70s or 80s and the "old world charm" of the film is intentional.[7]

Pre-production of this movie started in 2013 with the title “Thandana Thandanaana”. The film has been produced by Lokesh R under Sujana Creations banner and has mostly been shot in and around Bengaluru.

...Re marks the comeback of music director Hamsalekha after prolonged illness. He has written and composed two songs for the film that have been sung by Hiranmayi and Badariprasad. The soundtrack of the film was unveiled by Sudeep and Radhika Pandit at The Capitol Hotel in Bengaluru on Karnataka Rajyotsava day.[2] In a rare gesture the soundtrack of the movie was made available for download freely from the film's website.[8]

1.
Kannada
–
The language has roughly 40 million native speakers who are called Kannadigas, and a total of 50.8 million speakers according to a 2001 census. It is one of the languages of India and the official. The Kannada language is written using the Kannada script, which evolved from the 5th-century Kadamba script, Kannada is attested epigraphically for about one and a half millennia, and literary Old Kannada flourished in the 6th-century Ganga dynasty and during the 9th-century Rashtrakuta Dynasty. Kannada has a literary history of over a thousand years. Based on the recommendations of the Committee of Linguistic Experts, appointed by the ministry of culture, in July 2011, a centre for the study of classical Kannada was established as part of the Central Institute of Indian Languages at Mysore to facilitate research related to the language. Kannada is a Southern Dravidian language, and according to Dravidian scholar Sanford B, steever, its history can be conventionally divided into three periods, Old Kannada from 450–1200 CE, Middle Kannada from 1200–1700, and Modern Kannada from 1700 to the present. Kannada is influenced to an extent by Sanskrit. Influences of other such as Prakrit and Pali can also be found in the Kannada language. Literary Prakrit seems to have prevailed in Karnataka since ancient times, the vernacular Prakrit-speaking people may have come into contact with Kannada speakers, thus influencing their language, even before Kannada was used for administrative or liturgical purposes. Kannada phonetics, morphology, vocabulary, grammar and syntax show significant influence from these languages, some examples of naturalised words of Prakrit origin in Kannada are, baṇṇa derived from vaṇṇa, hunnime from puṇṇivā. Examples of naturalized Sanskrit words in Kannada are, varṇa, arasu from rajan, paurṇimā, Kannada has numerous borrowed words such as dina, kopa, surya, mukha, nimiṣa and anna. Pre-old Kannada was the language of Banavasi in the early Common Era, the Ashoka rock edict found at Brahmagiri has been suggested to contain words in identifiable Kannada. According to Jain tradition, Brahmi, the daughter of Rishabhadeva, the first Tirthankara of Jainism, invented 18 alphabets, including Kannada, which points to the antiquity of the language. Supporting this tradition, an inscription of about the 9th century CE, containing specimens of different alphabets and it has been claimed that the Greek dramatists of the 5th–4th century BCE were familiar with the Kannada country and language. This would show a far more intimate contact of the Greeks with Kannada culture than with Indian culture elsewhere, the palm manuscripts contained texts written not only in Greek, Latin and Hebrew, but also in Sanskrit and Kannada. In the 150 CE Prakrit book Gaathaa Saptashati, written by Haala Raja, Kannada words like tIr, tuppa, on the Pallava Prakrit inscription of 250 CE of Hire Hadagalis Shivaskandavarman, the Kannada word kOTe transforms into koTTa. In the 350 CE Chandravalli Prakrit inscription, words of Kannada origin like punaaTa, in one more Prakrit inscription of 250 CE found in Malavalli, Kannada towns like vEgooraM, kundamuchchaMDi find a reference. Pliny the Elder was a naval and army commander in the early Roman Empire and he writes about pirates between Muziris and Nitrias

2.
Comedy
–
In a modern sense, comedy refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, and stand-up comedy. The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece, in the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a performance which pits two groups or societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a Society of Youth and a Society of the Old, a revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes. Satire and political satire use comedy to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt, parody subverts popular genres and forms, critiquing those forms without necessarily condemning them. Similarly scatological humour, sexual humour, and race humour create comedy by violating social conventions or taboos in comic ways, a comedy of manners typically takes as its subject a particular part of society and uses humor to parody or satirize the behaviour and mannerisms of its members. Romantic comedy is a genre that depicts burgeoning romance in humorous terms. The adjective comic, which means that which relates to comedy is, in modern usage. Of this, the word came into usage through the Latin comoedia and Italian commedia and has, over time. The Greeks and Romans confined their use of the comedy to descriptions of stage-plays with happy endings. Aristotle defined comedy as an imitation of men worse than the average, however, the characters portrayed in comedies were not worse than average in every way, only insofar as they are Ridiculous, which is a species of the Ugly. The Ridiculous may be defined as a mistake or deformity not productive of pain or harm to others, the mask, for instance, in the Middle Ages, the term expanded to include narrative poems with happy endings. It is in this sense that Dante used the term in the title of his poem, as time progressed, the word came more and more to be associated with any sort of performance intended to cause laughter. During the Middle Ages, the comedy became synonymous with satire. They disassociated comedy from Greek dramatic representation and instead identified it with Arabic poetic themes and forms and they viewed comedy as simply the art of reprehension, and made no reference to light and cheerful events, or to the troubling beginnings and happy endings associated with classical Greek comedy. After the Latin translations of the 12th century, the term gained a more general meaning in medieval literature. Starting from 425 BCE, Aristophanes, a playwright and satirical author of the Ancient Greek Theater wrote 40 comedies,11 of which survive. Aristophanes developed his type of comedy from the satyr plays

3.
Richard Attenborough
–
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, Kt, CBE was an English actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and politician. He was the President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, as a film director and producer, Attenborough won two Academy Awards for Gandhi in 1983. He also won four BAFTA Awards and four Golden Globe Awards, as an actor, he is perhaps best known for his roles in Brighton Rock, The Great Escape,10 Rillington Place, Miracle on 34th Street and Jurassic Park. He was the brother of David Attenborough, a naturalist and broadcaster, and John Attenborough. He was married to actress Sheila Sim from 1945 until his death, Attenborough was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester and studied at RADA. The sisters moved to the United States in the 1950s and lived with an uncle, during the Second World War, Attenborough served in the Royal Air Force. After initial pilot training he was seconded to the newly formed R. A. F, Film Unit at Pinewood Studios, under the command of Flight Lieutenant John Boulting where he appeared with Edward G. Robinson in the propaganda film Journey Together. Attenboroughs acting career started on stage and he appeared in shows at Leicesters Little Theatre, Dover Street, prior to his going to RADA, in 1949, exhibitors voted him the sixth most popular British actor at the box office. Early in his career, Attenborough starred in the West End production of Agatha Christies The Mousetrap. Both he and his wife were among the original cast members of the production and it was his first appearance in a major Hollywood film blockbuster and his most successful film thus far. His portrayal of the serial killer John Christie in 10 Rillington Place garnered excellent reviews, in 1977, he played the ruthless General Outram, again to great acclaim, in the Indian director Satyajit Rays period piece The Chess Players. He starred in the remake of Miracle on 34th Street as Kris Kringle and he made his only appearance in a film adaptation of Shakespeare when he played the English ambassador who announces that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead at the end of Kenneth Branaghs Hamlet. His performance in The Angry Silence earned him his first nomination for a BAFTA, seance On A Wet Afternoon won him his first BAFTA award. His feature film debut was the all-star screen version of the hit musical Oh. What a Lovely War, after which his acting appearances became sporadic as he concentrated more on directing and producing. He later directed two epic films, Young Winston, based on the early life of Winston Churchill, and A Bridge Too Far. He had been attempting to get the project made for 18 years and he directed the screen version of the musical A Chorus Line and the anti-apartheid drama Cry Freedom. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director for both films and his later films as director and producer include Chaplin starring Robert Downey, Jr. as Charlie Chaplin and Shadowlands, based on the relationship between C. S. Lewis and Joy Gresham

4.
Advaita Vedanta
–
Advaita Vedanta is a school of Hindu philosophy and religious practice, and one of the classic Indian paths to spiritual realization. The term Advaita refers to its idea that the soul is the same as the highest metaphysical Reality, Advaita Vedanta traces its roots in the oldest Upanishads. It relies on three textual sources called the Prasthanatrayi and it gives a unifying interpretation of the whole body of Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras, and the Bhagavad Gita. Advaita Vedanta is the oldest extant sub-school of Vedanta, which is one of the six orthodox Hindu philosophies, though its roots trace back to the 1st millennium BCE, the most prominent exponent of the Advaita Vedanta is considered by the tradition to be 8th century scholar Adi Shankara. Advaita Vedanta emphasizes Jivanmukti, the idea that moksha is achievable in this life in contrast to Indian philosophies that emphasize Videhamukti, Advaita Vedanta is one of the most studied and most influential schools of classical Indian thought. Many scholars describe it as a form of monism, others describe the Advaita philosophy as non-dualistic, beyond Hinduism, Advaita Vedanta interacted and developed with the other traditions of India such as Jainism and Buddhism. Advaita Vedanta texts espouse a spectrum of views from idealism, including illusionism, in modern times, its views appear in various Neo-Vedanta movements. It has been termed as the example of Hindu spirituality. The Advaita Vedanta school has referred to historically by various names, such as Advaita-vada, Abheda-darshana, Dvaita-vada-pratisedha. According to Richard King, a professor of Buddhist and Asian studies, traditional Advaita Vedanta centers on the study of the sruti especially the Principal Upanishads, along with the Brahma Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita. Within the Vedanta tradition of Hinduism are many sub-schools, of which Advaita is one, unlike Buddhism, but like Jainism, all Vedanta schools consider the existence of Atman as self evident. The Vedanta tradition also posits the concept of Brahman as the eternal, the sub-schools of Vedanta disagree on the relation between Atman and Brahman. The Advaita darsana considers them to be identical, Advaita Vedanta believes that the knowledge of ones true self or Atman is liberating. Correct knowledge, which destroys avidya, psychological and perceptual errors related to Atman and Brahman, is obtained through three stages of practice, sravana, manana and nididhyasana, the Vedanta tradition of Hinduism rejects the dualism of Samkhya. Advaita, like all Vedanta schools, states that Brahman is both the efficient and the cause, that from which the origination, subsistence. What created all existence is also present in and reflected in all beings and inert matter and this Brahman it postulates is sat-cit-ananda. Second, how did cit Brahman create material world, third, if ananda Brahman is pure bliss, why did the empirical world of sufferings arise. These are the questions that Advaita Vedanta thinkers have historically attempted to answer, Advaita establishes its truths, in part, from the oldest Principal Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita and numerous other Hindu texts

5.
Sudeep
–
He won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Kannada for three consecutive years for his films Huchcha, Nandhi and Swathi Muthu. Since 2013, he has been hosting the reality show Bigg Boss. Sudeep was born to Sanjeev Manjappa and Saroja in Shimoga district of the Karnataka and he obtained his bachelors degree in Industrial and production engineering from Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore. He was a University-level cricket player during the day and had represented at the State-level in its Under-17. Before taking up acting as a profession, Sudeep attended the Roshan Taneja School of Acting in Mumbai, Sudeep began his film career in Thayavva which released in 1997. He then played a role in the Sunil Kumar Desai directed movie Prathyartha. In 2001, Sudeep acted in the hit film Huchcha, which gave him his first big following, in the year 2008 he made his debut in Bollywood with the movie Phoonk. He has also starred in Ram Gopal Varmas movies Rann, Phoonk 2 and his movies Kempe Gowda and Vishnuvardhana released in 2011 were blockbusters. The film emerged as a success, also receiving rave reviews from critics with Sudeeps performance receiving critical acclaim alongside. The year 2013 saw the release of two of his films – Bachchan and Varadanayaka and his next film was a drama titled Maanikya that he directed, a remake of the Telugu film, Mirchi. His first release of 2015 was Ranna, a remake of the Telugu film, later, Sudeep was seen in a cameo role in the S. S. Rajamouli magnum-opus Baahubali, The Beginning as Aslam Khan, a Persian Arms Trader. The movie went on to become highest-grossing film of 2015, Sudeep will be reprising the role of Aslam Khan in a sequel to the movie, titled Baahubali, The Conclusion. He has also directed Kannada movies and his directorial debut My Autograph and he has directed a few more movies, namely #73 Shaanthi Nivaasa, Veera Madakari, Just Maath Maathalli, Kempe Gowda and Maanikya. He has written script for Just Maath Mathalli and he made his debut in television with Premada Kadambari, a line taken from Bandhana song in Udaya TV. He then appeared as a mentor in the reality show Pyate Hudgeer-Halli Lifu season 1 which was aired on Asianet Suvarna and he started production with My Autograph which was a huge success in Kannada industry. Apart from acting, Sudeep also had a singing career and his singing has been well received by his fans and audience. He sang for his movies Vaalee, Chandu, Ranga SSLC, Nalla, #73, Shaanthi Nivaasa, Veera Madakari, Kempe Gowda, Bachchan and also for others such as Mandya to Mumbai, Ring Road Shubha. He also worked as dubbing artist for his movie Veera Madakari for a negative role Titla, Sudeeps voice is a baritone and is easily recognisable

6.
Nammoora Mandara Hoove
–
Nammoora Mandara Hoove is a 1997 Indian Kannada language film directed by Sunil Kumar Desai starring Shivrajkumar, Ramesh, Prema in the lead roles. The film received two awards at the 1996-97 Karnataka State Film Awards, Best Child Actor - Male and Best Female Playback Singer, the film was considered a landmark in the career of its lead actors. It was a success at the box-office. The music composition by Ilaiyaraaja was received with accolades with the songs continuing to frequently play in the air waves. Following a 22-week run in Bangalore, it was screened in a few screens in the United States, the film was remade in Tamil language as Kangalin Vaarthaigal. Manoj is a director, whose father is a singer. He tells his producer that he plans to visit different locations for his forthcoming film and he decides to go to Karwar, which is 322 miles north west of Bangalore, in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka. He then plans to stay with Praveen, a friend, who lives in Yellapur, also in Uttara in order to see the location. Praveen says that Pramod Hegde is the best person to guide him, next day, Manoj goes for a walk by the beautiful Satoddi Waterfalls, where he hears a girl with a beautiful voice. He films her, but when she sees him, she runs off, then he meets a young lad, Deepu, to whom he shows the girl he has filmed in his video camera, and asks who she is. He tells her that she is his sister, Suma, Manoj is intrigued by the girl, and the sound of her voice. He gradually falls in love with her and he meets Shivram Dixit, her singing teacher, and Praveens friend, Pramod who is to be his guide. Then Praveen introduces him to Suma. they look at each other, there is a cry, Deepu has fallen in the well. Everyone runs to the well, and Manoj and Pramod jump in to save him, Manoj gives him artificial respiration, and everyone is relieved when he finally breathes again. Suma signals her gratitude to Manoj and they decide to go for a picnic to Yana, a place famous for two massive black, crystalline limestone rock outcrops, the Bhairaveshwara Shikhara and the smaller Mohini Shikhara. They take Suma, Praveen, Sudha, Pramod and Maruthi, Manoj tells Suma that he loves her, and Suma begins to gradually fall in love with Manoj. Another girl, Jaji, arrives on the scene, Maruthi had told her father that he had seen her out with Mahadev, whom she says she loves. Her back is bruised, where her father had beaten her because of what Maruthi had told him, Manoj tells Praveen that Suma could become a very famous singer

7.
Hamsalekha
–
Hamsalekha is an Indian film composer and a songwriter who works in South Indian cinema, predominantly in the Kannada film industry since the late 1980s. He is also a writer, dialogue writer, instrumentalist. Composed and written for over 300 feature films and he integrated folk and introduced western musical sensibilities into the mainstream cinema. He is also accredited for introducing many musical talents to the industry, Hamsalekha was born Govindaraju Gangaraju in Mysore, India. After his studies, he was employed in his fathers printing press and he had a huge flair for writing poetry and forming a tune for his works. He renamed himself as Hamsalekhani since he used to write with a Swan brand pen. Later, his teacher modified his name as Hamsalekha and he was introduced into feature films by director M. N. Prasad, who provided an opportunity to write a song for the film Triveni. The song Neena Bhagavantha was his first release picturised on actor Uday Kumar and his debut film as a musician was the 1981 unreleased film Rahuchandra. Officially, his career started as a dialogue and lyric writer for the film Naanu Nanna Hendthi. Later his popularity soared only after his association with actor-director Ravichandran, Premaloka, released in 1987, brought them together for a collaboration that would endure for over 12 years. Hamsalekha is married to Latha who was a singer in the 1990s. The couple have a son named Alankar and a daughter named Nandini, Alankar is associated with films as an actor and musician. Few of his released and unreleased movies are Sugghi, Tapori, Nandini began her playback singing career with the film Sixer. After working on Premaloka, Hamsalekha became one of the most prolific directors in Kannada film. He made occasional use of genres of music, including Western, pop, rock, hip hop, Indian classical, folk, ghazals, Sufi. Chandakinta Chanda, a ghazal he composed for the film Sparsha, was a major hit and he has created songs ranging from the philosophical to the naughty, the patriotic and love songs. He composed the score for one movie using a single instrument. His music in the film Hagalu Vesha had a rustic and folk feel without the use of synthetic sounds and his music in the 2010 movie Naanu Nanna Kanasu was appreciated by critics as well as audiences

8.
Vaijanath Biradar
–
Vaijanath Biradar is a veteran actor in the Kannada film industry. He has acted in different roles in more than 350 Kannada films, Vaijanath Biradar was born and brought up in a farmer family, in a village called Tegampur in Bhalki taluk of Bidar district of northern Karnataka. Kashinaths Love Training, and Jaggeshs Mata Aliya Alla Magala Ganda and he has also appeared in Tulu Language Film Soombe. Vaijanath Biradar at the Internet Movie Database Life story of Vijanath Biradar

9.
G. K. Govinda Rao
–
G. K. Govinda Rao is a writer, intellectual, Professor of English and Kannada film actor from Karnataka, India. G. K. Govinda Rao has acted in several Kannada films including Grahana and he has appeared in role in Kannada T. V. serials Maha Parva. He is also considered as a resource person in the field of theater. He is also invited to lecture to University students on theatre topics. G. K. Govinda Rao has participated in social movements and openly criticized certain divicive political parties. He opposed superstitions practiced in society like Made Made Snana and gave lectures to create awareness against prevailing superstitions and he also criticized noted writer S. L. Bhyrappa, Pejavar Seer, Narendra Modi for their stand on issues like urulu seve, treatment of minorities etc. G. K. Govinda Rao has stated that he is not a supporter of the Naxal Movement of Karnataka although he expressed displeasure on the arrest of one Vittala Malekudiya for his link with Naxals

The swan is an important motif in Advaita. It symbolises two things: first, the swan is called hamsah in Sanskrit (which becomes hamso if the first letter in the next word is /h/). Upon repeating this hamso indefinitely, it becomes so-aham, meaning, "I am That". Second, just as a swan lives in a lake but its feathers are not soiled by water, similarly a liberated Advaitin lives in this world but is not soiled by its maya.